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Trophonius, the Greek Oracle That Left Its Visitors Unable to Laugh for Months

In Ancient Greece, there was an expression to describe someone who had lived through a terrifying experience: it was said of him that he had gone down to the cave of Trophonius. It was not an empty metaphor. In Lebadea, a city in Boeotia located about 120 kilometers northwest of Athens, there existed for more […]

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